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November 23, 2001
Editorials
Red Cross slowly earning trust
As the leading charity responding to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the American Red Cross has found itself coming to the rescue of an unexpected victim -- its own reputation. The Red Cross used its sophisticated fund-raising machinery to collect $542-million for terrorism victims and their families.
Tribunal powers
Congress should provide some oversight of the secret military tribunal and remind the president that overriding liberty for security could reduced our nation's credibility.
Letters
Rage destroys common ground among religions
Re: Diverse paths cross with tragic effect, by Susan Taylor Martin, Nov. 18.
Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.
Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.
Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.
Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.
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